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New today on EuroGamer is our review of Football World Manager 2000, the latest soccer management sim, this time from UbiSoft. Can it match up to the might of the all conquering Championship Manager series? Or is it headed for relegation? Read our review to find out!

BT had both good and bad news for British internet users this week... First the good news - for £9.99 a month you can now get unmetered internet access at evenings and weekends with BT Internet. Now the bad news - ADSL trials are going to grind on for another three months, which means you won't be able to buy ADSL until June or July at the earliest.

The latest of the recent flood of press releases coming out of Monolith has announced that Ripcord have bought six (count 'em!) LithTech licenses, including at least one for Zombie, the developer behind the Spec Ops series of games. For the full story, read the press release.

Eavy has posted an advanced guide to UT's Assault mode on his website. Given Eavy is currently ranked number one in the world on UT Assault, this is recommended reading.

An official website has opened for a multiplayer patch for SWAT3, which is expected in August and will be available for download or as part of an expansion pack, Battle Plan, which will also include six new missions for the game.

Brian Reynolds, the real brains behind classic turn-based strategy games such as Civilization 2, has resurfaced after his recent departure from long-time partner Sid Meier's company, Firaxis. His new company is called Big Huge Games, includes a few other former Firaxis employees, and will be making a real time strategy game.

New today on EuroGamer is our obituary for the recently deceased Cavedog.

Cavedog recently died in its sleep, aged 5, after a long and painful illness. Its death was announced in passing in a fiscal report from owner GT Interactive on February 11th 2000...

Jake Simpson, programmer on Raven Software's upcoming first-person shooter, Soldier of Fortune just updated his .plan with a little Soldier of Fortune development update. According to Jake, SoF is looking very solid so the game will be out soon, hopefully.

New today on EuroGamer is our big hands-on preview of Lemmings Revolution, the new 3D sequel to the classic puzzle game Lemmings. Can it recreate the old magic in three dimensions, or will it suffer the same fate as previous Lemmings sequels? Read our preview to find out!

Andrew Eglington sent word that the company behind Unrealty, one of the more unusual uses of the Unreal engine to date, is looking for texture artists to help them with the project. If you're interested in this (paying) job, contact vito@perilith.com.

Lemmings. The very word is enough to reduce many older gamers to fits of nostalgia.

The demo version of the SOG mod for Quake 2 has been released. For those of you who haven't heard of it before, the mod is the work of the team behind the (in)famous Generations mod that was shut down by id Software for legal reasons. The SOG demo includes three characters and twelve new maps for those of you still playing Quake 2...

The Q3Fortress team sent word that their TF-inspired Quake 3 mod is now in "closed-alpha" testing, with a public beta release coming soon. They've also released a new screenshot of the mod and some docs on the new entities from the mod.

The man behind Threewave CTF, David "Zoid" Kirsch, announced in his .plan today that he is leaving id Software after three years working as a contract programmer for the company, producing Q2CTF and working on Linux ports of the Quake games amongst other projects.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of Novalogic's voxel powered soldier sim, Delta Force 2. To find out whether it's the SAS or the Dad's Army of the genre, read our review!

The latest addition to the growing EuroGamer empire is "ModGamer", a site dedicated to mods and user-made add-ons for a whole range of games from the Quakes and Unreals through to Tiberian Sun and Total Annihilation.

Epic Games' anticipated Unreal Tournament bonus pack has finally been released, exclusively for Gamecenter. This free bonus pack features three new characters, 11 new multiplayer levels and the new 'Relics' system (similar to the Quake 'Runes'). Grab the file (13.8 Mb) from Gamecenter (I assume their FTP is swamped at the moment, but keep trying).

Following on from our Evolva preview earlier this week, EuroGamer has today posted an interview with the team behind the game.

UbiSoft just sent us word that they are working on a new 3D action adventure game based on .. wait for it .. VIP, the TV series about a female bodyguard featuring former Baywatch "star" and the planet's first silicon based lifeform, Pamela Anderson Lee.

Until recently British company Computer Artworks was probably best known for "Organic Art", a program which allows you to "evolve" art on your computer, picking out which strains you like best and breeding them to produce eerily beautiful pictures that look like some sort of bizarre prehistoric life form...

have posted a downright bizarre interview with Matt Kresge, one of the team behind the 3D RPG Summoner. For example, when asked how he goes about designing models, Matt replied -

It may only just have been released in the UK today, but the first patch for Battlezone II is now available. The patch (available from Activision here) is a meager 3Mb, and improves multiplayer support, fixes some controller problems, makes haulers haul more reliably, and "enables worldwide multiplayer gaming".

Finally some news about the upcoming Unreal Tournament bonus pack, apparently Gamecenter will team up with Epic Games to premiere the Unreal Tournament Bonus Pack today. This free bonus pack will feature three new skins, 11 new multiplayer levels and a new feature, Relics (similar to the 'Runes' in good 'ol Quake). Be sure to check us out later today for the news on this bonus pack.

Cinematix have released a patch for their action/role-playing game, Revenant (which we reviewed yesterday), it's still unknown exactly what this patch fixes. Grab the file from 3D Files (2.1 Mb).

New today on EuroGamer is our (better late than never) review of Revenant, a role playing / adventure game from Eidos.

Our UK release dates list has been updated with the latest information from UbiSoft. Amongst the changes, Odium's release has been pushed back until next week, and Deep Fighter has been given a provisional release date of "June". For all the latest release date information, check our UK release date list!

John has let me know that 1C have released the first movie (20 Mb) from their upcoming truck driving simulator, Hard Truck 2, an upcoming game that utilizes the same engine that has been used by various simulators, including NASA. Download the movie from GA-Sports or 3D Files.

GamePlay had posted the demos from the Razer-CPL event's official UK qualifier yesterday, but they were all just dumped into an ftp directory with no real idea of which was which. Now somebody with time to spare over at Barrysworld has sifted through them and posted an index of the demos here. They're still not quite sure which matches all of Billox's demos are from, but that should be added later...

I noticed over at CGO that Westwood Studios' anticipated Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun expansion pack, Firestorm has gone gold and is set to hit shelves in North America March 9th. This expansion pack will feature 18 new single-player maps, 15 new multiplayer maps, new options for the Battle Map creator and a bunch of new units.